The German Volcano Route or, less commonly, German Volcano Road () is a 280-kilometre-long tourist route from the River Rhine to the mountains of the High Eifel. It links 39 sites within the Geopark Vulkanland Eifel in the Volcanic Eifel (Vulkaneifel), at which geological, cultural-historical and industrial-historical nature and cultural monuments on the subject of volcanicity in the Eifel are located.
The project was carried out in 2008 in cooperation between the counties of Ahrweiler, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell, Mayen-Koblenz and Vulkaneifel. The choice of the 39 stations was made by the German Vulcanology Society (Deutsche Vulkanologische Gesellschaft, DVG).
Route Station Name Image Station 1Car park at Erntekreuz with a view of the Laacher See Station 2Maria Laach Abbey, Glees Station 3Eppelsberg, cinder cone Station 4Roman mine, Meurin, near Kruft Station 5 Rauschermühle information centre Station 6German Volcano Museum, Mendig – Lava Dome, Mendig Station 7Wingertsbergwand Station 8Mayener Grubenfeld Station 9Slip fold, Dachsbusch, Glees Station 10Devonian Terrace, Kurfürstenbrunnen well and Angelika Spring Station 11Trasshöhlen (caves) Station 12Bausenberg, horseshoe crater near Niederzissen Station 13 Brohltal/Laacher See Volcano Park (Vulkanpark Brohltal/Laacher See) information centre in Niederzissen Station 14Tuff Rock Centre (Tuffsteinzentrum), Weibern Station 15Hohe Acht (746,9 m), highest mountain in the Eifel Station 16Stone quarry at Raustert Station 17Mosbrucher Weiher (pond) Station 18Ulmener Maar Station 19Volcano Platform, Steineberg Station 20Thermal springs and Käse Grotto (Käsegrotte), Bad Bertrich Station 21Immerather Maar (maar lake) Station 22Pulvermaar Station 23Volcano House, Strohn (Vulkanhaus Strohn) Station 24Holzmaar (maar lake) Station 25Dürres Maar and Hitsche Maar Station 26Weinfelder Maar Station 27Gemündener Maar Station 28Volcano Museum, Daun (Vulkanmuseum Daun) Station 29Dreiser Weiher Station 30Basalt intrusion, Arensberg Station 31Palagonite tuff ring and volcano garden, Steffeln Station 32Mühlstein Caves in the Rother Kopf (Eis) Station 33Papenkaule and Hagelskaule near Gerolstein Station 34Stone runs, Hundsbach valley Station 35Kaltwasser Geyser Wallender Born in Wallenborn Station 36Meerfelder Maar Station 37Mosenberg Reihenvulkan and Hinkelsmaar Station 38Maar Museum, Manderscheid Station 39Rock folds in the basement near Manderscheid
Literature Overview map 1:100,000 series, State Office for Survey and Geobasis Information (Landesamt für Vermessung and Geobasisinformation) Rheinland-Pfalz, d´Hein: Nationaler Geopark Vulkanland Eifel. Ein Natur- and Kulturführer. Gaasterland-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2006, Wolfgang Blum, Wilhelm Meyer: Deutsche Vulkanstraße. Görres Verlag, Koblenz, 2006,
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